frontal filament

frontal filament
(Subclass Copepoda):
One of two slender projections extending from rostrum of freeliving copepod. With sensory function [Stachowitsch, 1992].
(Class Ostracoda):
Frontal organ [Stachowitsch, 1992].

Crustacea glossary. . 2011.

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